In the previous movie on pixels, we established that all scanned images are…constructed out of pixels, no matter whether it's a line art image, a contone…image, or a document, boom!…Scanner creates pixels.…Now, I'd like to address the issue of resolution and the reason why you need to…be aware of and knowledgeable about resolution is that you need a certain amount…of resolution in order to create an image at a specific dimension on a…particular output device.…So let's just dive right in and first of all just to reconvince you of that,…here we have a nice image of Greenwich Village in the fall.…

Looks like a continuous tone, but indeed as we zoom in, yup, it's all pixels.…After a while, you'll start thinking of your images in terms of pixels and…that's a great thing to do, because the more you do that, the more you…understand your image and better the decisions that you'll make.…What I am going to do is we're going to go into our dialog box in Photoshop and…it's called Image Size and that same dialog box exists in other applications…

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9/8/2011

In this course, photographer and graphics professional Taz Tally shows home and business users how to get the best results from their scanners. The course begins with a look at scanning essentials, including how to clean and care for a scanner, choose scanning software, and understanding concepts such as resolution and file format. Next, Taz uses the basic mode that most scanning software provides to show how to perform an array of common scanning jobs, from scanning photos and artwork to capturing text using optical character recognition. Three real-world projects are also included, which show the process of scanning something and then editing and sharing the results.